How Can You Tell? (Neville Longbottom)

Waking up

Neville's POV

"DETENTION! POTTER AND...

"O-O'Leary. Mary O'Leary" She whispered. She fell off of Her stool with a thud. Hermione and I ran over to her. I stared down at her with utter pain. I can't believe that old bat gave her detention. She didn't deserve this.

"Take her to the hospital wing, you two. Then come back immediately." Umbridge said as she re-tidied herself after all of that shouting.

I carefully lifted Mary off of the floor and put her arm around my shoulder, as Hermione did the same to Mary's other arm. I hope she's ok, she needs to be ok. Hermione and I began our journey to the hospital wing.

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Mary's POV

I woke up with a thrashing headache. I moaned in pain. I was in the hospital wing. What happened to me? Why was I here? The. it all came flooding back into my memory. I passed out in DDA after receiving detention for sticking up for Harry. I can't believe I did that... I didn't know I had the courage to do that. Unbelievable really... Before I could get a new thought, I heard Hermione's voice.

"Mary! You're awake!" She exclaimed.

"Yea, I guess I am," I said in a raspy manner "How long have I been out?"

"Almost three days, we were so worried!" she cried.

"We?" I asked

"Neville and I. He was here a while ago, but I told him to go eat." she replied.

My cheeks burned with embarrassment. He was here? He really cares about me...

"MARY!" I heard a familiar female voice say.

"Ginny?" I queried.

"Oh, yea Ginny too.." Hermione said.

"YEA! It's me!" she shouted.

"Stop shouting, mate. I Can here you very clearly."

"Oh, erm, sorry." She said quietly.

I heard a quiet clicking noise that repeated over and over again. Like, high heels...

"Miss O'Leary, are you better now?" I heard a sing-song voice say. It was the toad.

"U-um"

"Today, please." she said waiting for my answer. Hermione scoffed at this.

"Y-yes, Ma'am." I finally choked out.

"Good, then I shall be seeing you at my office at 5 o'clock this evening." And with that, she turned on her heel, and left the hospital wing.

"How rude!" Hermione said in disbelief.

"I know! She's such a... Such a....hag!" Ginny said.

"Well, I better get ready, for detention." I said. I got the okay from Madame Pomfry, and went back to my dormitory. I went into the bathroom, stripped from my three day old clothes and turned on the cold water. I didn't like hot showers, they always made me tired. So I took a cold shower. Stepping out of the shower, I started to hum an old Lullaby my mother used to sing to me. I missed her so much. A tear slipped from my eye as I heard a loud bang on the door.

"Mary, are you done yet, it's nearly time." I heard Hermione's soft voice through the door.

"Yea, I'm almost done, just need to dry."

I dried my slim figure with a towel, and brushed through my black strands. I dried my hair with my wand. I stepped out of the bathroom and dressed myself. Hermione helped me down the stairs and we sat on the couch in the common room. I still had about a half hour before I needed to leave.

"C-can I sit?" a voice asked

I looked up and saw Neville. "Of course." I stated.

"I'm so glad you are okay, I was worried about you." Neville said as his cheeks turned bright pink.

"Thank you" I replied, as my cheeks did the same.

"I, erm, should be... uh getting to Ron." Hermione said.

No no no no! You need to stay! I can't do this! I'm too shy... if only she were in my head, to actually hear what I was saying.

"Okay" Neville and I said in unison. Then Hermione got up, winked at me, and left.

The awkwardness was almost unbearable. I wish he just liked me...

"I was there the whole time, when you were in the hospital. I didn't want to leave... but Hermione made me leave to eat."

"Thank you for staying. And you shouldn't have stayed, you should've eaten and slept and went to class..."

"I wanted to stay with you. I never want to leave you..."

My heart did a backflip inside of me. Did he just say that? I must be dreaming...

Neville's POV

Did I just say that out loud... oh man.

Mary's POV

"So, um, did I miss anything exciting while I was out." I said trying to start a new conversation.

"Not really."

It just ended like that. We sat there and basked in the comfort of the couch until I had to go.

"I have to go now."

"Do you know what you are doing for you detention?" he asked

"I have no idea. I hope it's lines."

Little did I know that I would eat those words later on.

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I'm the worst person in the whole wide world! I haven't updated in so long.... I had bad writers block.. I'm so sorry.

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Sooooo I was thinking that I would do a little contest thingy...

I think I want to have a new character... hehe okay

All I need is one person, sooooo

I have a Harry Potter trivia question for you, and whoever gets it, will become a regular character in my story.

The question is: In the first movie, Neville receives a remembrall, What is the thing he is forgetting?

If you win, Please Give me the following:

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Character Name:

Age/Year:

House:

Description/or choose a celebrity to play you:

Other -optional- (Any cool things about your character) :

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Good luck my lovelies

~ MaryLongbottom